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Vista Use Grows as Mac OS X Stays Flat
jdelator writes to mention ComputerWorld is reporting that Microsoft's Windows Vista has increased their market share steadily every month while their main opponent, Mac OS X, has remained essentially flat. "According to Net Applications, in June Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%. Vista has grown its usage share each month since its release to consumers Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in February, 2.04% in March, 3.02% in April and 3.74% in May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, accounted for 6.22% in January and hit its high point of 6.46% in May, but it slipped back to 6% in June. If Vista's uptake trend continues, it should pass Mac OS X in Web usage share by the end of August."
Anyone who runs a major website knows that Apple's actual marketshare continues to flounder down around 2 percent from webbrowsing stats.
Honestly, Apple really should just sell the OS X stuff of to Microsoft or some unix/Linux company and focus on what they really care about, digital music players and phones.
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on /. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read /. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks.
If MS were to fold up and get sucked into the near-by "Mel's Hole", 10% of /. readers would go insane because they had nothing more to bitch about, another 10% would have to enter monastaries, Buddhist or otherwise, because that's what they promised (g)God(s) they would do, and 20% would start looking around for a good lawyer to see if a pact signed with the Evil One (aka RMS) signed in blood was binding.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Nice ad hominem. The people who want, or don't ask for something other than, Vista, well, they're just ignorant, ain't they?
Fuck me, you're kidding. The average guy on the street, even the one fed up with Windows crashes, just "knows" (because hell, everyone knows, it's common knowledge, as you say), that he should 'probably wait til Leopard' is out. Ha. Ha. Ha. If I ask the average "potential Mac switcher" to name any of the OS X versions, I'm pretty sure he'd get ... ooh ... zero, or one. Maybe two if I dropped a hint about "named after large game cats".
Priceless.
I'm telling them to wait until the draconian DRM, Activation on corp editions, MS Spyware, and other cruft gets removed, and the EULA gets updated so it's closer to the old XP / win2k version. Since that won't happen, people will just be forced to continue to be happy with XP. Since there is no compelling reason to upgrade, why choose a version that has these shitty attributes?
My organization will *NEVER* migrate to vista because of that crap.
With Apple selling 15% of new laptops this year, it is slightly surprising that they only have a 6-7% market share.
Maybe the folks who are buying the Apple laptops are installing Windows or Linux. I understand that now that Apple is using Intel chips, Apple laptops make nice (if overpriced) Wintel systems. I still don't see the point, as one can get better laptops for less money from a variety of vendors.
"You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
I do not really know how Computerworld writers can publish such rubbish. It is well known that the Mac OS is only a fairly small fraction of the total OS's on the web so it is not surprising that Vista is becoming more frequently used. Vista is growing simply because it is the de facto OS on new PCs that are being purchased, not because it is a better OS than on the Mac. The whole article, as is most of Computerworld's articles on this issue, pure crap. Are they paid by Microsoft to write it?
better for less... no different for less or less for less yes. It's an important distinction to make as Apple's hardware is less expensive when compared equally
Nah...you always pay too much for that stupid Apple logo. Apple does make some nifty hardware, but you can almost always get better from other reputable manufacurers for less. And they don't tend to be as anal about the proprietary nature of their wares. Look at all those poor iPodiots and iPhonies who paid too much for lame but oh-so-trendy hardware, when the competition delivers moreand better for less $$$.
"You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie